Wich DIY speakers do you use and/or recommand with a Zen V4?

[Bricolo]

Everything's said in the title

[till]

this question is not new here, read these threads:

speaker companies

and :

recommendation for ZEN compatible speakers



maybe the best thing you could do is wait, Nelson promised there will be a Zen - suitable speaker project on www.passdiy.com soon.

I coud´nt wait. I had a lot of diskussion via email with passdiy (thanks) and i work on this:
My first horn experiments

[Bricolo]

ok, thanks


I've rode things about horns on your links

what are horns advantages/disadvantages?


If Nelson comes here, will the "suitable speakers for Zen" article be available before Q2 2003?

[till]

I think any information out there which project will published at what time is in the DIY progress report thread.

for advantage of horns: to much information to post easily here.

please put in a search engine "why horns" or so, look for chicago horn speaker club - site, look for audioasylum - high efficiency forum - etc.

most important i think is high efficiency. Out of this come some advantages like dynamic range, linear because small movement of driver membrane, low need of power from the amp -> very linear and low distorsion when using class A amps like Zen ... but im not the right one to answer the question. there are better skilled people out there.

[Bricolo]

and for disadvantages?

My knowledge about horns is near nero

and if they are so linear, high efficient, and so and so, I don't understand why they are so rare

there certainly is an annoying disadvantage...

[till]

belive me, my knowledge was zero some month ago. All i knew was you use them on ships for signals and so.

main disadvantage: size.

horns are big, big speakers don´t sell good.

another point: if the advantage is you need only a few watts, it doesn´t fit in a market that sells stuff by arguments like "this amp has 1000Watts"

Or this way: there are a lot of ways to build good speakers for aleph2 or bigger amps. If you want good dynamics and you use a ZEN, you have maximum about 25Watt. Maybe only 5 - 10. So you need very high dB/W and this leeds to horns.

I can´t say the way i go is right, because i have no comparison. Also i don´t want to make a religion out of this. And my speakers are far away from beeing finished as you know. It´s an experiment and DIY will ever be experimental - this is why its interesting. And you learn a lot on this way.

If you want more information you could mail me and i send you what i have.



PS: for horns have a look on the hompage of carpenter, who posts a lot in all the alephx / and PCB related threads .

[Bricolo]

why not copy & paste it here, instead of mailing me?
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who whants to know



What do you call "Big"
From the pictures I've seen, a horn takes less volume than a classical speaker (but less practical volume, sure)

are horns good for "low" volumes? (This question might sound stupid, but for me, a horn is the big thing used like you said, on boats, with high volume)

[till]

ha - if you are really interested its too much to cut ´n paste!

look this:
http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.pl?f...me&r=&session=

and : the lower the frequency - the bigger the horn.

My A7 is about 1060*760*610mm or so- without the circulars. Its only for about 150Hz upwards a horn - lower its a bassreflex.

If you want to know something about a truely bass horn you will want to search here for "the claw"